Intentional Insights makes me cringe for its obvious clickbaityness. I am totally consequentialist, and if it helps to raise the sanity waterline, go for it—but I’m skeptical that it does. I feel a bit repelled by the low-effort content and shady attention-grabbing techniques; it causes me to feel slightly less respectful of the EA community, and less like I belong there. I hope that’s just me.
If you are going to use any shady techniques, fabricated content or praise, non-organic popularity on social networks, or anything along those lines: please do it in a way so that nobody notices! I am not trying to offend you. Just don’t let stuff like this happen:
http://effective-altruism.com/ea/12z/concerns_with_intentional_insights/
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